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My PhD project explores how the theoretical, political, and visual strategies of early HIV/AIDS activism are remediated online. It takes the first ten years of YouTube – 2005 to 2015 – as a framework for analysing broader cultural practices throughout Web 2.0, and shows how The YouTube Decade bookmarks changes in web technology, HIV treatment and prevention, and the study of gender and sexuality that are intertwined. It suggests that queer theory might no longer provide the most effective apparatus for approaching HIV/AIDS in these new contexts, and offers an alternative framework synthesising queer, trans, disability, and critical race studies to think through relations between technology, the body, and disease. It uses ethnography, media archaeology, and close reading to examine case studies ranging from YouTube vlogs and Facebook threads to performance art and amateur pornography, and argues that such remediations of AIDS produce a new form of critical and creative labour I term “theorising bodies”; this embodied discourse intervenes in contemporary queer scholarship to enable new understandings of marginality and difference in the United States, and offers a blueprint for future trajectories of coalitional activist politics.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Studies, Diva Las Vegas: Queer Space and Subjectivity in the Entertainment Capital of the World, University of Oxford
Award Date: 1 Jan 2014
Bachelor of Fine Art, After the Storm: AIDS and the Memorial Aesthetic, 1990-1996, University of Oxford
Award Date: 1 Jan 2013
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